How Artists See Animals: Mammal Fish Bird Reptile (Carroll Colleen)(Pevná vazba)

How Artists See Animals: Mammal Fish Bird Reptile (Carroll Colleen)(Pevná vazba)

How Artists See is a series of interactive, inquiry-based books designed to teach children the art of observation and increase their visual literacy. Each volume presents eighteen diverse works of art, all devoted to a subject that children know from personal experience. Author Colleen Carroll's

Bird King: An Artist's Sketchbook (Tan Shaun)(Pevná vazba)

A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See (Campt Tina M.)(Pevná vazba)

Examining the work of contemporary Black artists who are dismantling the white gaze and demanding that we see--and see Blackness in particular--anew. In A Black Gaze, Tina Campt examines Black contemporary artists who are shifting the very nature of our interactions with the visual through their

See How They Grow Farm (DK)(Pevná vazba)

How to Hold Animals (Matsuhashi Toshimitsu)(Pevná vazba)

A delightful treasure trove of tips on how to hold animals without hurting

Nest: Rescued Chickens at Home (Holmes Janet)(Pevná vazba)

How do we decide which animals are family and which are food? Why are we surprised to see a rooster gazing out the kitchen window or a hen studying herself in the mirror? After all, chickens are present in many homes, as flesh and eggs, but not as individuals with personalities of their own. In

Lip - a novel of the Cornwall tourists seldom see (Carroll Charlie)(Pevná vazba)

A haunting debut novel of a young woman living on the edge in a Cornwall the tourists never see, struggling with the aftermath of family

Artists' Letters: Leonardo Da Vinci to David Hockney (Bird Michael)(Pevná vazba)

A treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists, providing unique insight into their characters and a glimpse into their lives. Artists' Letters is a collection of intriguing, entertaining, moving, significant, surprising, witty and insightful correspondence from great

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll Lewis)(Pevná vazba)

Lewis Carroll's fantastical tale is an artist's dream. With the complete, unabridged text and glowing full-colour illustrations on almost every page, Alison Jay's vivid interpretation of the classic story is a perfect introduction to the novel - and this jacketed hardback edition is an elegant gift

How to Hold Animals (Matsuhashi Toshimitsu)(Pevná vazba)

From hedgehogs to frogs, How to Hold Animals is the irresistible guide to holding more than forty of your favorite critters safely and properly, according to wildlife specialists. Learn from the experts--a pet shop owner, a veterinarian, a wildlife photographer, and a reptile handler--how to pick

Reptiles (Gunasekara Mignonne)(Pevná vazba)

Meet the Predators! These animals are at the top of their game when it comes to catching their prey. No matter their size or speed, these animals rule their respective food chains. Who's

Birds - Ornithology and the Great Bird Artists (Lederer Dr Roger)(Pevná vazba)

Birds celebrates the heyday of avian illustration in 40 artists' profiles, beginning in the early 1600s and continuing through to contemporary

Wild Scientists - How animals and plants use science to survive (Mould Steve)(Pevná vazba)

Butterfly Fish (Okojie Irenosen)(Pevná vazba)

Winner of the Betty Trask Award 2016. A novel of epic proportions... I fully expect to see Butterfly Fish on many an award nomination list. -- Yvvette Edwards, author of A Cupboard Full of Coats. A stunningly well-written book, juggling different timescales with great skill. Benin itself is vividly

In a People House (Dr Seuss)(Pevná vazba)

When a spunky mouse invites a passing bird to see what's inside a People House, chaos ensues while beginning readers learn the names of 65 common household items--and that people are generally not pleased to find mice and birds in their houses A super simple, delightfully silly introduction to

Predator vs Prey: How Snakes and other Reptiles Attack (Harris Tim)(Pevná vazba)

Discover the primary adaptations that make predators into fearsome

Creative Legacies: Artists' Estates and Foundations (Battista Kathy)(Pevná vazba)

Creative Legacies takes an in-depth look at how to create and maintain an artist's estate, offering practical advice illustrated by real-life

Undercover Animals (De La Bedoyere Camilla)(Pevná vazba)

Look at these amazing hide-and-seek experts Undercover Animals reveals just how well camouflaged insects, birds, reptiles, and mammals can be. It features all kinds of creatures, from animal mimics to shape and color changers, camouflage masters, and concealment experts. Inside, you ll find a

How Do You See It? (Galindo Vera)(Pevná vazba)

The other day I discovered something amazing! We don't all see things the same way. Don't you believe it? A journey through art by the hand of great contemporary artists to discover the artist within

Language as Prayer in Finnegans Wake (Jaurretche Colleen)(Pevná vazba)

This innovative analysis shows how James Joyce uses the language of prayer to grapple with intangible things in his dreamlike masterpiece Finnegans Wake. Colleen Jaurretche moves beyond what scholars know about how Joyce wrote this work to suggest exactly why it follows the order it does in its

Fish (Gunasekara Mignonne)(Pevná vazba)

Meet the Predators! These animals are at the top of their game when it comes to catching their prey. No matter their size or speed, these animals rule their respective food chains. Who's

Performing Image (Harbison Isobel)(Pevná vazba)

An examination of how artists have combined performance and moving image for decades, anticipating our changing relation to images in the internet era.In Performing Image, Isobel Harbison examines how artists have combined performance and moving image in their work since the 1960s, and how this

Lakes (Shores Erika L.)(Pevná vazba)

Simple text describes how lakes form, the plants and animals in lakes, and how people use lakes. Full-colour photographs perfectly match the text on each

Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain (Carroll Ross)(Pevná vazba)

How the philosophers and polemicists of eighteenth-century Britain used ridicule in the service of religious toleration, abolition, and political justice The relaxing of censorship in Britain at the turn of the eighteenth century led to an explosion of satires, caricatures, and comic hoaxes. This